Your Wish Is My Command: Programming by Example – eBook PDF

Your Wish Is My Command: Programming by Example – Ebook PDF Instant Delivery – ISBN(s): 9780080521459,0080521452

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0080521452
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎  9780080521459
• Author: Henry Lieberman

As user interface designers, software developers, and yes-as users, we all know the frustration that comes with using “one size fits all” software from off the shelf. Repeating the same commands over and over again, putting up with an unfriendly graphical interface, being unable to program a new application that you thought of yourself-these are all common complaints. The inflexibility of today’s computer interfaces makes many people feel like they are slaves to their computers. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Why can’t technology give us more “custom-fitting” software?

On the horizon is a new technology that promises to give ordinary users the power to create and modify their own programs. Programming by example (PBE) is a technique in which a software agent records a user’s behavior in an interactive graphical interface, then automatically writes a program that will perform that behavior for the user.

Table of contents:

1. Chapter 1. Novice Programming Comes of Age
2. Chapter 2. Generalizing by Removing Detail: How Any Program Can Be Created by Working with Examples
3. Chapter 3. Demonstrational Interfaces: Sometimes You Need a Little Intelligence, Sometimes You Need
4. Chapter 4. Web Browsing by Example
5. Chapter 5. Trainable Information Agents for the Web
6. Chapter 6. End Users and GIS: A Demonstration Is Worth a Thousand Words
7. Chapter 7. Bringing Programming by Demonstration to CAD Users
8. Chapter 8. Demonstrating the Hidden Features that Make an Application Work
9. Chapter 9. A Reporting Tool Using Programming by Example for Format Designation
10. Chapter 10. Composition by Example
11. Chapter 11. Learning Repetitive Text-Editing Procedures with SMARTedit
12. Chapter 12. Training Agents to Recognize Text by Example
13. Chapter 13. SWYN: A Visual Representation for Regular Expressions
14. Chapter 14. Learning Users’ Habits to Automate Repetitive Tasks
15. Chapter 15. Domain-Independent Programming by Demonstration in Existing Applications
16. Chapter 16. Stimulus-Response PBD: Demonstrating “When” as well as “What”
17. Chapter 17. Pavlov: Where PBD Meets Macromedia’s Director
18. Chapter 18. Programming by Analogous Examples
19. Chapter 19. Visual Generalization in Programming by Example

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